I blame Pawlenty. He stood by and did nothing while Franken and thug/goon party changed the rules, pulled ballots out of their ass and stole the election. Al Franken? Is he even normal? Sane?

Norm Coleman won his election fair and square, and he was robbed by the same crooks who gave Burris the fraud his senate seat.

"Franken, who will hold a victory rally Wednesday and will be seated in the Senate next week, will assume coveted committee assignments on the Health, Labor, Education and Pensions Committee and the Judiciary Committee, allowing him to play a role in influencing the debates over health-care reform and the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor when Congress returns from its Fourth of July break" -- from a Yahoo news story. Choi opines, "Here's the ultimate Freshman Senator,100th in Seniority, receiving "Coveted " Committee Assignments in order for him to play an"influencing role" in RUINING Our Nation".

The Minnesota Supreme Court yesterday declared Democrat Al Franken the winner of last year's disputed Senate race, and Republican incumbent Norm Coleman's gracious concession at least spares the state any further legal combat. The unfortunate lesson is that you don't need to win the vote on Election Day as long as your lawyers are creative enough to have enough new or disqualified ballots counted after the fact.

Mr. Franken trailed Mr. Coleman by 725 votes after the initial count on election night, and 215 after the first canvass. The Democrat's strategy from the start was to manipulate the recount in a way that would discover votes that could add to his total. The Franken legal team swarmed the recount, aggressively demanding that votes that had been disqualified be added to his count, while others be denied for Mr. Coleman.

But the team's real goldmine were absentee ballots, thousands of which the
Franken team claimed had been mistakenly rejected. While Mr. Coleman's lawyers
demanded a uniform standard for how counties should re-evaluate these rejected
ballots, the Franken team ginned up an additional 1,350 absentees from
Franken-leaning counties. By the time this treasure hunt ended, Mr. Franken was
312 votes up, and Mr. Coleman was left to file legal briefs.

What Mr.
Franken understood was that courts would later be loathe to overrule decisions
made by the canvassing board, however arbitrary those decisions were. He was
right. The three-judge panel overseeing the Coleman legal challenge, and the
Supreme Court that reviewed the panel's findings, in essence found that Mr.
Coleman hadn't demonstrated a willful or malicious attempt on behalf of
officials to deny him the election. And so they refused to reopen what had
become a forbidding tangle of irregularities. Mr. Coleman didn't lose the
election. He lost the fight to stop the state canvassing board from changing the
vote-counting rules after the fact.

This is now the second time
Republicans have been beaten in this kind of legal street fight. In 2004, Dino
Rossi was ahead in the election-night count for Washington Governor against
Democrat Christine Gregoire. Ms. Gregoire's team demanded the right to rifle
through a list of provisional votes that hadn't been counted, setting off a hunt
for "new" Gregoire votes. By the third recount, she'd discovered enough to win.
This was the model for the Franken team.

Mr. Franken now goes to the
Senate having effectively stolen an election. If the GOP hopes to avoid repeats,
it should learn from Minnesota that modern elections don't end when voters cast
their ballots. They only end after the lawyers count them.

Read it and weep.

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Al Franken's "Super" Stolen Election

I blame Pawlenty. He stood by and did nothing while Franken and thug/goon party changed the rules, pulled ballots out of their ass and stole the election. Al Franken? Is he even normal? Sane?

Norm Coleman won his election fair and square, and he was robbed by the same crooks who gave Burris the fraud his senate seat.

"Franken, who will hold a victory rally Wednesday and will be seated in the Senate next week, will assume coveted committee assignments on the Health, Labor, Education and Pensions Committee and the Judiciary Committee, allowing him to play a role in influencing the debates over health-care reform and the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor when Congress returns from its Fourth of July break" -- from a Yahoo news story. Choi opines, "Here's the ultimate Freshman Senator,100th in Seniority, receiving "Coveted " Committee Assignments in order for him to play an"influencing role" in RUINING Our Nation".

The Minnesota Supreme Court yesterday declared Democrat Al Franken the winner of last year's disputed Senate race, and Republican incumbent Norm Coleman's gracious concession at least spares the state any further legal combat. The unfortunate lesson is that you don't need to win the vote on Election Day as long as your lawyers are creative enough to have enough new or disqualified ballots counted after the fact.

Mr. Franken trailed Mr. Coleman by 725 votes after the initial count on election night, and 215 after the first canvass. The Democrat's strategy from the start was to manipulate the recount in a way that would discover votes that could add to his total. The Franken legal team swarmed the recount, aggressively demanding that votes that had been disqualified be added to his count, while others be denied for Mr. Coleman.

But the team's real goldmine were absentee ballots, thousands of which the
Franken team claimed had been mistakenly rejected. While Mr. Coleman's lawyers
demanded a uniform standard for how counties should re-evaluate these rejected
ballots, the Franken team ginned up an additional 1,350 absentees from
Franken-leaning counties. By the time this treasure hunt ended, Mr. Franken was
312 votes up, and Mr. Coleman was left to file legal briefs.

What Mr.
Franken understood was that courts would later be loathe to overrule decisions
made by the canvassing board, however arbitrary those decisions were. He was
right. The three-judge panel overseeing the Coleman legal challenge, and the
Supreme Court that reviewed the panel's findings, in essence found that Mr.
Coleman hadn't demonstrated a willful or malicious attempt on behalf of
officials to deny him the election. And so they refused to reopen what had
become a forbidding tangle of irregularities. Mr. Coleman didn't lose the
election. He lost the fight to stop the state canvassing board from changing the
vote-counting rules after the fact.

This is now the second time
Republicans have been beaten in this kind of legal street fight. In 2004, Dino
Rossi was ahead in the election-night count for Washington Governor against
Democrat Christine Gregoire. Ms. Gregoire's team demanded the right to rifle
through a list of provisional votes that hadn't been counted, setting off a hunt
for "new" Gregoire votes. By the third recount, she'd discovered enough to win.
This was the model for the Franken team.

Mr. Franken now goes to the
Senate having effectively stolen an election. If the GOP hopes to avoid repeats,
it should learn from Minnesota that modern elections don't end when voters cast
their ballots. They only end after the lawyers count them.